Provided with a schema, XSD generates C++ classes that represent the given vocabulary as well as parsing and serialization code. You can then access the data stored in XML using types and functions that semantically correspond to your application domain rather than dealing with elements, attributes, and text in a direct representation of XML such as DOM or SAX.

Major new features in this version:

• Customization of parsing constructors and serialization operators
• Support for handling of XML Schema wildcard content in the stream- oriented mapping (C++/Parser)
• Optimizations for the run-time memory consumption and code size
• Support for Intel C++ 9.1 and IBM XL C++ 7.0
• Support for IBM AIX on POWER/PowerPC and GNU/Linux on IA-64

For a complete list of new features see http://www.codesynthesis.com/pipermail/xsd-announcements/2007/000020.html

XSD is available on AIX, GNU/Linux, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. Supported C++ compilers include: GNU g++, HP aCC, IBM XL C++, Intel C++, Sun C++, and MS Visual C++.

More information as well as precompiled binaries for all supported platforms are available from http://www.codesynthesis.com/products/xsd/